Gorchansky National Park
Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Description:
Gorchanski National Park is a picturesque park in Poland, which was created on the first of January 1981. It is located in the Gorce Mountains, which are part of the Western Beskids and its area is 6,763 hectares.
Gorchansky National Park is located near the town of Rabka-Zdruj in the Malopolska Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Almost 95 percent of its territory is covered by forests and which is divided into two levels - the lower subalpine with plantations of Carpathian beech, mountain beech, fir and spruce and the upper subalpine with pines and firs.
There are 950 species of vascular plants – 17 alpine species, 22 subalpine species, 80 subalpine forest and mountain species, 250 species of mosses and 450 species of lichens. The most typical representatives of the fauna are deer, Carpathian deer, boar, wild cat, ermine, badger, lynx. The park is home to more than 90 species of nesting birds, owl, eagle, hawk, deaf, as well as some reptiles and amphibians, including salamanders.
The Gorchansky Park has many tourist routes 70 kilometers long, including two training trails and several mountain biking trails.